If you want to spark an argument online, talk about the minimum wage and how wages impact the macroeconomic picture. Nothing stirs the hornet’s nest like that; the inequality apologists and libertarians swarm forth like hornets to defend the Golden Calf of unregulated capitalism and the Law of Iron Wages, pulling all of the tried and true arguments against it from the their bag of tricks. The most common argument that they use is that forcing employers to pay their employees more with a minimum wage will kill jobs – but they have others, and you’ve probably seen some of those anti-minimum wa...

"By the end of his term, 138 Reagan administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."

from p. 184,Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years, by Haynes Johnson, (1991, Doubleday)